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Deforestation in the Tropics
Deforestation in the tropics

Rainforests are being destroyed at an astounding rate. The land is being cleared away for the pure interest of money and nobody of these capitalists thinks about it’s importance. It supports millions of plant, animal and insect species. Tropics produce more than 20% of our oxygen on the planet and that’s not all, we use huge amount of plants from there to provide ourselves with medics and drugs. I understand capitalistic view and I respect it, but it is not normal to cut everything down for a profit. People should do it properly, step by step, giving the chance to tropics to grow back. It is huge amount of time to grow the forest back on the cutted area, but there should be some kind of a plan, what will figure out all the nuances and what will have strict rules.
We should keep this treasure what was given to us alive and then tropics will won’t disappear and it is also for the capitalists, beacause their business will lasts longer. We cannot afford to luse such a valuable resource, that’s what mother nature gave us to keep ourselves alive. Tropics has many plants that could help to treat human cancer and lots of different positive properties. My viewpoint is that we need to have some rules, we can cut the forest, but we should do it by other way, we should respect rainforests, for all of us it should cost more than gold, because we can mine gold, but we won’t lose our ecosystem or it doesn’t change our weather or climate, but tropics can, it is too important to lose

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